Demonstrates that man has devised ways of making work easy with the aid of simple tools, engines and motors, and by harnessing such natural forces as wind and water.
Maria's favourite pastime is machine inventing. She can't stay still. She's always thinking of something to build. She's invented so much that one day she just couldn't invent more.
Two tribes go to war. Nobody wins.
A restless wife and a loving husband find an antique sound machine at a yard sale that they hope will let them sleep through the night, however they soon realize that the sound machine has no plans to let them have a good night's sleep at all.
Machine with Wishbone is an entirely live action movie shot without special effects, featuring the work of internationally celebrated artist Arthur Ganson. Using innovative camera choreography, photo sculpture, and kinetic sculpture, Machine with Wishbone tells the tale of a stoic mechanical wishbone on its journey through a world of snoring beds, paper birds, and places you have to see to believe.
Outrageous Big Machines features 4 captivating construction shows on 1 action packed DVD. Take your kid directly to the work site where they will help real construction workers clear the way for roads and blast away mountains of debris with awesome power. Better pack your hard hat - it's going to be a bumpy ride!
An intriguing historical film, demonstrating many expensive business machines found in modern offices of the era, including electromatic and Chinese typewriters and machines for filming, stenciling, folding and lithographing. Among the machines shown are Diebold's Flofilm microfiche recorder, the Fileomatic Desk, the Pierce Electronic Wire Recorder, the Soundscriber with plastic disk, the Elliott Stencil Machine with Graphotype machine, the Davidson Duplicator for litho printing, the Davidson Folder for letters, the Varityper, the Autotypist Perforator, the IBM Chinese character typewriter, and speed typist Stella Pajunas, using an IBM Model A Electric Typewriter, who set a one-hour typing speed record in 1946 of 140 net five-stroke words per minute.
In a desperate attempt to solve her problems, a girl seeks help from a known miracle worker.
The war between mankind and intelligent machines has begun - and the machines are winning. Tomasz is a deserter who tries to hide as far away from the battle as possible. In the vast emptiness of northern Scandinavia he meets Lilja, the last survivor of a resistance group, who is determined to fight the superior machines. With every minute that passes the machines get closer, searching for the last remains of the human race. And the enemy doesn't just shoot on sight - their perfect sensors are programmed to recognize human voice patterns. So if you speak or even whisper - you die.
A Korean riff on The Terminator.
An inventor tries to impress the woman he loves. Will she love him back?
A tortured man-turned-machine recounts his inner conflicts while being escorted to fight his foe once again—this time in the face of a greatly personal sacrifice.
Dead Hand episode 2. Last day of war. Last war broke out. All people are dead, but the machines continue dutifully follow orders. On the automatic base machines fueling and charge the weapons of last surviving bomber preparing to drop bombs at the dead enemy city. This happens until the echo of mankind subsides completely. Then comes a new era in which there is no place for us.
Eighteen very different stories are told in this horror anthology film, as we get to see time travel, robots, aliens, murder, killer dolls and even the apocalypse.
Wildly grief-stricken over the accidental death of his parents, young techno-geek Cody (Sasha Andreev) cobbles together an electrical device that he hopes will bring the spirits of mom and dad back from beyond the grave. But the machine's power and Cody's deepening obsession threaten the safety of his only remaining family: his younger brother, James (Max Hauser). Matt Osterman directs this ghostly sci-fi thriller that also stars Matthew Feeney.
A dramatized episode from Robert McCloskey's book "Homer Price." Shows Homer's resourcefulness in managing the dilemma created by a doughnut machine with a mind of its own.
Dr. Goldfoot schemes to use his Bikini Machine to kidnap a young man with infinite information stored in his head by the government.
A man tries to convince his skeptical friend that he has invented a trap for catching extraterrestrials.